Alden Music - Updates, Unreleased Tunes, Shows, Danque.: Form & Folly (official release)

Well here we are and actually more or less on schedule, a first on behalf of musicians everywhere. I would like to start by thanking the phenomenal talents of violinist Edward Hou, drummer Nick Hagstrom, and tuvan throat-singer Andrew Hallberg. Without their competent abilities, this Album would undoubtedly have been comprised of skillful monotony exclusively on the acoustic guitar. Secondly I would like to thank you, whomever is reading this. Without your intrigue and appreciation of the arts, I would have nothing more than some metaphysical thoughts stuck in the proverbial crevasses of my mind.

I have been playing music for a while now and had always thought about putting out a CD but struggled to find an idea that could stand on it's own to tie all of my songs together, giving the album a kind of pulse. One day in 2009, I realized that 3 of my songs, written roughly about the same concept(s), were related in both musical and archetypical ideology. It wasn't coincidence, but it was unplanned. The idea behind the 'Turquoise Trilogy' (which entails Lullaby for Turquoise, Copper Masts, and Eulogy to the Turquoise Dream ) was that we often idealize things for their near perfections; a.k.a. their preconceived forms. The songs depict a chronology of thought from idealization to realization, ultimately digressing to idealizing imperfections pronounced in life. This idea transcends the entire album, aptly named Form & Folly. Again citing the trilogy of songs, take a gem like turquoise and look for it's colors in other aspects of life. There is this dime store notion that you can pay for something as simple, intricate and full-bodied as turquoise, so long as you can look past the fact it has been marketed to you (Lullaby). Eventually I came to realize that I don't see a lot of gemstones lying around places, but still see the color turquoise; most frequently in rusted metals like copper (Copper Masts). The final part of the trilogy (Eulogy) depicts the death of perfect forms, while dawning the realization that the imperfections which make things 'near' perfect are more essential to facets of mankind than their ideological counterpart. There are a lot of tangent and circular ideas that branch off this one, which I tried to include in the album, but it's really whatever you make of it. Thank you again for your support,
Reid Beairsto
Alden.

If you want a copy of the album, please email me at aldenmusic@sbcglobal.net and I'll send you one for a reasonable, yet negotiable price. Also I will be trying to set up one of those online download sites where you name your price for the album and get the .mp3 codes: suggested minimum price is $5.